In the present work we explore two topics of interest in finance, economics and social anthropology through the application of techniques from information theory and statistical mechanics. In the first topic we study the connexion between statistical ... read more →

Empirical evidence suggests that social structure may have changed from hierarchical to egalitarian and back along the evolutionary line of humans. We model a society subject to competing cognitive and social navigation constraints. The theory predic ... read more →

Recently, we have found an additional spin-orbit (SO) interaction in quantum wells with two subbands [Bernardes et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 076603 (2007)]. This new SO term is nonzero even in symmetric geometries, as it arises from the intersubband ... read more →

Your blog will be generated by marmite Click to see screenshots Light Mode Dark Mode Step 1 As a Fork (recommended) CLICK ON FORK BUTTON and name your fork blog. Or as a template Click on Use this template and name your new repo blog Step 2 ... read more →

We discuss the connection between information and copula theories by showing that a copula can be employed to decompose the information content of a multivariate distribution into marginal and dependence components, with the latter quantified by the ... read more →